The Delta Expo

Domburg is only 20 km from the Delta Expo, the exhibit about the gigantic engineering project that protects the Netherlands from flooding.  So we rented a bakfiets and a kindertandem to go see it.  The kindertandem is a tandem designed for a grown-up and a child to ride together.

Henry on the Kindertandem

William on the Kindertandem

The bike path took us through the dune woods, along some fields with grazing sheep, through a small town where we stopped for lunch and then over the giant storm surge barrier built after the catastrophic floods of 1953.  After about 3 hours of serious pedalling we made it to the Delta Expo.

The Expo had a film about the 1953 flood, exhibits about the historical creation of Zeeland by draining the sea and, of course, about the storm surge barrier we had just ridden across.

William Controlling the Storm Surge Barrier

Henry the Mussel

Outside at the Expo we saw a seal show, walked through a whale building and played in the water park.

It took only 70 minutes to ride back to Domburg with the wind at our backs.  We were ready for our pancake dinner!

Opening Up the Sluice Gates